Hitler was for gun control.

Hitler took the guns. Stalin took the guns. Mao took the guns. Fidel Castro took the guns. Hugo Chavez took the guns.

I'm saying we need to pull back and investigate every part of this because there was a famous shooting more than 20 years ago in New Zealand that... Allowed them to confiscate all semi-auto and then all basically bolt action where all you could have was single-shot shotguns and rifles with special licenses.

The legal actions he's talking about happened in 1992, when an amendment was made to the Arms Act. And all it did was create greater registration requirements for gun owners. Among the changes were adding photographs to gun licenses, requiring that license holders reapply after 10 years to have a new license reissued, making it so only licensed gun owners can buy ammunition, that sort of thing. The amendment also created a new category of gun from a legal standpoint that was the military-style semi-automatic, but it didn't ban them at all.

After the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by a gunman, Heston championed the Gun Control Act of 1968, a landmark federal law regulating firearms.